Rep Anthony Weiner to Resign

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I am surely missing something in this story. The guy is an online perv, of whom there are, one suspects, millions nowadays, including women (apparently one of the complainants being a porn star and sometime hooker). Barney Frank’s home was the situs of a homosexual prostitution operation run by one of his boyfriends, and he got another another of them appointed to an executive position at FNMA.

I don’t condone either thing at all, and find them both scandalous and sickening. But I guess one kind of perversion, which we understand greatly outnumbers in its afficionados, the other, gets a guy driven from Congress. The other kind, of course, does not, and its practitioner is an honored and powerful member of the House of Representatives.

The nation truly has gone mad.
 
Ridgerunner said:
I am surely missing something in this story. The guy is an online perv, of whom there are, one suspects, millions nowadays, including women (apparently one of the complainants being a porn star and sometime hooker). Barney Frank’s home was the situs of a homosexual prostitution operation run by one of his boyfriends, and he got another another of them appointed to an executive position at FNMA.

I don’t condone either thing at all, and find them both scandalous and sickening. But I guess one kind of perversion, which we understand greatly outnumbers in its afficionados, the other, gets a guy driven from Congress. The other kind, of course, does not, and its practitioner is an honored and powerful member of the House of Representatives.

The nation truly has gone mad.
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I think you went a bit far with the “honored” part but for the most part you are correct. Remember the Senate had its own KKK member who was honored by his party as the “conscience of the Senate.”
 
SamH said:
I think you went a bit far with the “honored” part but for the most part you are correct. Remember the Senate had its own KKK member who was honored by his party as the “conscience of the Senate.”
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And, of course, one remembers the Clinton cigar, among other things. But no resignation, of course, and no righteous wrath from Nancy Pelosi, the sometime marcher in gay pride parades with known pedophiles.

This whole thing is beyond farce.
 
What you want to bet he will end up working for MSNBC within the next couple of months?
 
estesbob said:
What you want to bet he will end up working for MSNBC within the next couple of months?
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He might. But I’m still marveling at Pelosi going after this guy the way she has and essentially ordering him to resign “or else”, and him obeying.

One truly has to wonder who is lined up to replace Weiner (yes, I know the replacement will be theoretically elected) and why, and what the “pay to play” price is. Are Pelosi and the other top dogs in the party any better than Blagojevich? That they’re better at it than Blago, I have no doubt. So, we’ll probably never know. But they sure do seem to want that seat vacated awfully badly. Badly enough to overcome their otherwise laissez-faire attitude toward sexual perversion.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
  1. He wasn’t a prominent politician.
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I disagree. I think he was a rising star.
  1. How is the prurient interest this generated appropriate for a Catholic Forum?
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While I sort of agree with you, I think it is not out of the realm of this forum to discuss the consequences of immoral behaviour. His texting and then the lie to cover it up are clearly moral issues.

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Tim
 
I am glad he resigned. I was afraid that the GOP was going to turn him into political theatre rather than focusing on the economy and ending the wars overseas.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
I am glad he resigned. I was afraid that the GOP was going to turn him into political theatre rather than focusing on the economy and ending the wars overseas.
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So a sexual deviant occupies a congressional seat and the fault lies with the Republicans for pointing it out?

Wiener turned this into political theater by not re-signing as soon as his deviancy became public.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
  1. He wasn’t a prominent politician.
  2. How is the prurient interest this generated appropriate for a Catholic Forum?
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1.Your totally right. I follow politics pretty closely, and I think I had barely heard of him before this scandal broke.
  1. Your dead wrong. Replace the “D” with an “R” near his name, and people on the left would be taking out carving knives, including people on this forum. It’s totally fair on a Catholic forum.
 
I wish republican senator David Vitter from Louisiana had resigned as well. The republicans who have been calling for Weiner’s resignation have been viewing this story through a partisan lens, and it reeks of hypocrisy.
 
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